Locum Breast Upper GI consultant
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage, East of England
Overview
This is a NHS role (fixed-term) with East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust based in Stevenage. The advertised salary is £113,565 to £150,569. Applications close on 1 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Locum Consultant in Medical Oncology with a special interest in breast and upper GI malignancies, based at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Lister Hosp...
At Mount Vernon, the post holder will be expected to work with members of the MDTs in supervising the oncology treatment of patients.
At the Lister Hospital and QEII Hospital sites, the post holder will work closely with the breast and upper GI multidisciplinary teams to provide a safe and high-quality outpatient oncology service.
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Essential: - Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register; - FRCPath or equivalent; - Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs
Desirable: - Postgraduate degree (or equivalent); - Royal College Fellowship
Essential: - Broad range of experience in Haemato-oncology; - Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues; - Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion; - Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
Desirable: - Fully competent in clinical and laboratory haematology
Essential: - Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.; - Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
How this role compares
We hold 893 NHS vacancies in East of England that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £39,959. This role pays more than about 91% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,295 of them in East of England.
You have 11 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust has 30 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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